"TO WALK THE NIGHT"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

"TO WALK THE NIGHT"

GRAND AMERICAN NOVEL I Mr. William Sloane, a new American author, who writes English well, has found in " To Walk the Night " an ingenious technique for telling a thoroughly good talc. Two graduates returning to their college to watch a football game call on their one-time astronomy lecturer and find him unnaturally* burned to death in his observatory. One of the young men later marries the astronomer's widow and then commits suicide. We listen in throughout the book to the breaking of the bad news in detail to the suicide's father by the suicide's friend. We are surrounded by the higher mathematics, and our interest is to try to determine what kind of scientific or super physical horror the author is giving us. it is fairly safe to say that no matter in what direction a reader's thoughts run to solve the mystery ho will be wrong in the majority of cases. "To Walk the Night " differs in three laudable respects from books of its kind; it contains an absolutely novel weapon, its imagination is tempered by a wonderful control, and its mystery woman, poor soul, is never superficially sinister. This novel is certain to win a large circle of readers for its author. "To Walk the Xitfht," by William Sloane. (Arthur Barker.)